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Dictyostelium discoideum

An international consortium which includes the Sanger Institute completed the sequencing of the Dictyostelium discoideum genome (strain AX4). D.discoideum has a 34 Mb haploid genome with a base composition of 77% [A+T]. It consists of 6 chromosomes encoding approximately 12,500 proteins.

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